Hello theeeeere! The idea for this story just didn't let me go! I hope you'll like it! Enjoy it! :D
sg LSOTA
It was today when Ellie and Joel arrived in the Salt Lake City hospital and it was today when they left.
It had to be the last day for Ellie to live, she had to be sacraficed to save thousands of others.
That's what she wanted, that's what she espected.
So it suprised her even more, when she found herself on a back seat of a car and when Joel said that the Fireflies stopped to find a cure.
''There's a whole lot more like you, Ellie.'' He said.
She didn't know what to respond, so she dropped the issue.
Now she's sitting here, staring in the flames of the campfire and thinking about the today's events. Did Joel really tell her the truth?
Of course, she can trust him, but the whole thing seems too absurd.
The disbelief fret her and the more she thinks about it, the more it gets worse.
Everything she did can't be for nothing.
She looks over to Joel, who is sitting on a trunk, staring in the fire, a content expression on his face. He turns his face to her and smiles, a sincere one and she gives him a weak smile back.
'No he would never lie to me' she thinks and interrupts the eye contact.
''When we reach Jackson, everything's gonna be alright, Ellie. No hunters, no bandits and no fireflies, we'll live a calm and peaceful life. You'll see, I promise!''
He says and she looks again in his eyes, to see any doubt, but she finds none.
''Sounds great.''
She says and gives him again a smile, stands up and yawns.
''I think I'll try to sleep.'' she says, knowing it will take her hours to fall asleep.
''Fine, I'll watch out, good night.''
He gives back, she drops herself to the ground, which isn't as hard as she thought and uses her backpack as a pillow.
She pulls her switchblade out of her pocket, like always when she wants to sleep, it gives her a weird feeling of protection and when they are attacked she is always ready to fight back.
She tights her grip around the cool metal, when she remembered the last owner.
''Night.'' She mutters and closes her eyes.
The campfire softly crackles, like a lullaby in her ears and she can feel the warmth of the flames on her face, when her mind slowly drifts away into the world of dreams.
Well, in her case the world of nightmares.
She wakes up, her grip still tight around her switchblade, when she roles from her right side on her back.
Something is different, the ground under her is different.
It isn't hard anymore, no absolutly not. It actually feels confortable, soft and so good against her body, which is familiar with a hard and rocky ground to sleep on.
And she is rolled up in...Blankets? It flashes through her mind and she finally opens her eyes, only to face a ceiling, her eyes widen and she lifts herself up to take a look around.
Where the hell am I?! She thinks confused.
It looks like a bedroom.
There is a black, wooden desk under a window, with close-drawn curtains, on the left
side, with a chair, comics and books lie on it, also a small lamp stands there.
Then on the right side is a white wardrobe right next to it is a wooden book-shelf, filled with more books and comics and trophies.
At the wall in front of Ellie is a second, but smaller bookshelf, filled with CD covers.
There is a shelf with a strange black box too and on it lies a smaller, black thing with buttons and joysticks. On the shelf stands a television and right next to it a radio. She notices a skateboard, which leans against the right wall and on the ground lies a football, next to two paires of shoes. A grey carpet covers the bottom and the walls are covered with posters and photos.
To her suprise, the most photos are from her, smiling with persons she never saw before.
Who are these people and why I can't remember them?
The only picture she ever took was with Riley and she had to leave it back in Boston in the military school.
She jumps out of the bed and steps on the wooden floor, the switchblade still in her hand she notices that her jeans, t-shirt and hoddie are replaced.
With grey sweatpants and a green t-shirt with a motive, she is also barfoot.
What is all this about? Where is Joel and how on earth did I get her?
She closes her eyes and massages her temples with her fingers to re-arrange her thoughts.
Okay, okay, so yesterday I was laying by the campfire, Joel was with me and everything was fine and today I wake up in a strange bed, in a strange room and Joel is gone. Well, that doesn't sound crazy at all!
She thinks with a grimace and her head begins to hurt from all the confusion and the thousand questions, which flashes through her mind.
Suddenly she hears something.
More specifically someone.
She sneaks to the door, presses her right ear against the wood and holds her breath.
She hears someone singing with a high, melodic voice.
Who can be so stupid to sing, especially that loud? There are possibly clickers or runners around!. She opens gently the door and a delicious smell flys in her nose, when she takes a deep breath.
Holy shit that smells like heaven!
Her stomach agrees with a growl and she slips out of the room in a small corridor.
The first time, since she woke up, she notices that this building isn't touched by any destructions, it's the cleanest place Ellie ever saw.
It's like this place is completely isolated from the outside world.
To her right are two more doors and to her left are stairs, which lead downstairs and also to the singing.
She makes her way, on tiptoes to the stairs and sneaks step for step down, the switchblade ready, just in case.
As she leaves the stairs behind she stands in a second corridor.
There is the maindoor in front of her, on her left an open doorway to another room, two other doors, and at the end of the corridor the back exit.
One of the two doors is open, the singing and the delicious smell come obviously from that room.
Ellie sneakes along the wall and stops at the doorframe.
She bend forward and gets a sneak peek at the scene in the room.
There is a woman in front of a herd, she has blond hair, which is bound to a long ponytail. She wears dark jeans, a white t-shirt, black converse, and she has a trim figure .
Ellie can only see the back of the woman, so she can't see her face.
The woman sings and bobs up and down cheerfully, while she stacks a tower of something round and thin on a plate right next to her on a kitchen counter.
The view of the plate with the cause of that wonderful smell let Ellie slobber and distracts her for a few seconds.
Enough time for the woman to turn around and to see Ellie in the doorframe, like hypnotized, slobbering and staring at the great meal.
The woman stops singing and a wide grin appeares on her freckled face.
''Seems like someone's starving, huh?''
Ellie suddenly frozes and her gaze slips from the steaming deliciousness to the woman, who is now facing her.
The woman has soft, green eyes, her face is covered with a few freckles, she has high cheekbones, full lips and pale skin.
Looks like she's something around thirty.
Wait, for some reason the appearance reminds me of something...
''Hey, honey are you alright?''
The woman says with a worried expression. She nears Ellie, rests her hands on the girl's shoulders and bends forward to the same eyelevel like Ellie.
But Ellie only gazes in abstraction.
She looks like how Marlene always described my...no that's impossible, she is dead! It can't be HER!
Without thinking Ellie bursts out. ''Anna..?''
At first the woman looks surprised, then her eyes soften again and she says with a chuckle.
''Yeah, that's my name, but you can call me mum, sweetie. Now take a seat, I bet our neighbours can hear your stomach growling and before they call an animal rights activist, we should feed the beast.''
She chuckled again and gives her daughter a kiss on the forehead, turns around to grap the plate of smells-like-heaven-deliciousness and put it down on a wooden table with four chairs, mumbles something about ''...teenager nowerdays...''
Ellie walks over and takes a seat, she hides her switchblade in the pocket of her sweatpants.
I know I should be happy, I should kiss and hug her, just for the fact that she is alive, but I'm still too confused. How is that even possible? Am I dreaming?
She pinchs unobtrusive her arm..., nothing she is still here and her arm hurts now, great.
Maybe I'm sleeping very deep this time and even Joel can't wake me up.
She thought, but she acknowledges to herself that it feels very real for a dream.
Her mother places a empty plate in front of her and a glass with an orange liquid, also a fork is placed next to the plate.
Anna takes the seat across Ellie and places a cup on her side and begins to read, what looks like a newspaper.
''Do you eat nothing?''
Ellie asks and begins to smell at the substance in the glass, her eyes widen.
No fucking way, that's orange juice! This dream evolves to one of my favorite ones ,maybe it could top the one, in which I rode a dinosaur!
Before the mother can answer the question of her daughter, the redhead yells excited.
''Where did you get that?''
Ellie points at the glass and looks expectant to the woman, who now lowers the newspaper to face her daughter and when she sees what the girl means, she only raises one brow in confusion.
''From the supermarket?'' she answers.
''Is there more of this?'' Ellie hopefully asks, eyes still wide.
''Yeah...?''
Anna responses, still confused.
''Awesome, next time you have to take me with ya!''
The redhead says and shovels the most part of the tower on her plate, Forgetting what her first question was.
Anna gives her daughter a leery glance. The last time her daughter came with her to go grocery shopping, was, well five years ago, when she was ten.
In the time, when her daughter grew older, Ellie not only preferred to stay at home when her mother went shopping, she started to spend less time with her too.
Well, that's how teenagers are, but it is still hard for Anna to accept that her little girl becomes older and one day starts her own life.
And for that fact she is even more excited that her daughter wants to come with her.
So she only smiles and gives her attention again to the newspaper.
Ellie begins to bolt the food in her mouth and moans with every bite.
That's sooo goood!
Her mother again lowers the newspaper to look at her daughter and raises amused a brow at her.
Ellie gives her a shy smile and blushes a little.
Anna just grins back shakes her head and continues with reading.
When Ellie finishs her meal, she takes the glas of orange juice and begins to drink.
While she is drinking, she scans the newspaper and something gets her attention, it was the date.
She spooks the juice out again, right on the newespaper and her mother.
''Ellie!''
Anna shouts surprised.
''What's gooten into you?!''
She says and looks unbelievable to her daughter.
''Today is the 27. september 2013!''
Ellie whispers, shocked.
''Yeah, I know your birthday is in five days and your excited, but that doesn't mean to act like a pig.''
She rebukes her daughter and stands up to take a kitchen towel.
''It's one day after the outbreak..''
Ellie mumbles with a shaky voice.
''What did you say?'' her mother asks.
But she doesn't hear it, cause only one thought shoot through her mind.
I have to find Joel!
EEEEnd of chapter 1, thanks for reading and tell me if you like it so far! C:
sg LSOTA